The Doom of Super Mario
I didn't think this would be cool but after seeing the video I am converted. Experience the original Super Mario in 3d... with a shotgun?
View ArticleKeeping the rest of your hands busy
So you've spent the holidays playing games, but now you have to be back at work. How to get your gaming fix during commutes and lunch-hours, whilst keeping up with that resolution to Learn Something...
View ArticleLiquid Hills
For Sale: Rural Italian countryside, Priced to MOVE! A landslide (mud flow?) splits a hillside apart in the southern Italian town of Maierato.
View ArticleThe New Yorker profiles Shigeru Miyamoto
There are generally two approaches to thinking about games: narratology and ludology. The first emphasizes story, the second play. The next time I played Super Mario, on the Wii (you can order all the...
View ArticleSuper Gandhi-o Bros.
These days, any old fool can beat Super Mario Bros with a record-breaking number of points, or in the shortest amount of time. This guy managed beat the game with the lowest number of points possible....
View ArticleBut won't you think of the koopas?
PETA's latest public target is Super Mario 3D Land, specifically Mario's use of the tanooki suit, which PETA claim signify the wearing of a tanuki skin. To raise awareness, PETA had a little flash game...
View ArticleStill waiting for a minimal score run on Mario Golf
Super Mario World Minimal Score Run (half-hour SLYT, NES version previously) On top of the low score goal, there were additional rules for extra difficulty: Rule 1: Played on actual hardware, no...
View ArticleFlying squid
In 2010 from the deck of a cruise ship along the coast of Brazil, amateur photographer and retired geologist Bob Hulse snapped some high-resolution photographs of something unusual leaping from the...
View ArticleSpecial Mario Bros.
SuperMarioBros.Special occupies a strange place in Mario history. It's one of the few Mario games produced for a system other than Nintendo's own, licensed by Hudson Soft for the Japanese PC-8801...
View ArticleTomorrow: NiGHTS into Dreams on the N64
Remember playing Super Mario World on your Sega Genesis? Probably not, considering it's a rather rarebootleg. Well, thanks to the efforts of some determined gamers, you can now play it at home,...
View ArticleThere Is No Princess, Only Zuul!
Super Mario Busters. It's an animated mashup bringing the worlds of Super Mario Bros. and Ghostbusters together in a clever, delightful way. [SLYT] Need more? Here's a Doctor Who / Back To The Future...
View ArticleIn which we discuss the politics of the Mario Universe.
...Although as he self-styles himself "King Koopa," it is apparent that he claims (or is seeking) parity of esteem with Princess Peach; that is to say that he does not regard himself as a "terrorist,"...
View ArticleCat Power: Super Mario 3D World preview
"Meow." He forms his hands into claws and performs a slow cat-scraping motion. To his left and to his right sit the esteemed producer and the director of Super Mario 3D World. "Meow," they both say,...
View ArticleTOTALLY UNAUTHORIZED
Strategy guides, then. Some were official. Some were... less official. Unauthorized, even, free to explore a game's mysteries without the nagging presence of the developers hanging over them. Of...
View ArticleThank you Mario! But our princess is in another... SYSTEM FAILURE
In Super Mario World, if you make the right series of moves with the right game objects, you can cause the game to execute arbitrary code. A particularly delightful use of this feature was recently...
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